Proverbs 21:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

Proverbs 21:12 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 14:11
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
Psalms 37:35-36
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. …
Psalms 52:5
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
2 Peter 3:6-7
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: …
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

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Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12)

1. As we read this verse, it shows why good men, when they come to understand things aright, will not envy the prosperity of evil-doers. When they see the house of the wicked, how full it is perhaps of all the good things of this life, they are tempted to envy; but when they wisely consider it, when they look upon it with an eye of faith, when they see God overthrowing the wicked for their wickedn…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. (Compare Psa 37:35-38; 73:17, 20). house--family or interests. overthroweth--either supply “God” (compare Pr 10:24), or the word is used impersonally.